Re: [MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-26 Thread Mitch Haley
What Rick said. The good news is that there's more room in the 126 tranny tunnel than the 123. List owner Kaleb has done a few 123 B2s in the car, could probably help with specific questions if you run into trouble. Do put the whole sleeve/piston kit, don't get lazy and put the new piston in the

Re: [MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-26 Thread John Berryman
On Mar 25, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: Yeah, I was on yahell lists before. I was not particularly impressed. This IS the place for information on ALL Mercedes, not just diesels (although a good deal of us are from an old diesel list). Here is some B2 info

Re: [MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-26 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
yep, sounds like the b2 pistion for sure. Somebody around here has a writeup on it which I need to post to the website. Daniel Konow wrote: Hello List I send the follwing Email earlier to a different list and got a kind answer from Larry T. who has a good guess about the problem my 81 300SD

Re: [MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-26 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Yea, it can be done in the car alrighty. Mitch Haley wrote: What Rick said. The good news is that there's more room in the 126 tranny tunnel than the 123. List owner Kaleb has done a few 123 B2s in the car, could probably help with specific questions if you run into trouble. Do put the whole

[MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-25 Thread Daniel Konow
Hello List I send the follwing Email earlier to a different list and got a kind answer from Larry T. who has a good guess about the problem my 81 300SD is facing. He suggested to join this list and bother you guys with my tech problem.. So here we are. Any reply is greatly appreciated

Re: [MBZ] B2 Piston repair? --- Transmission failing

2006-03-25 Thread Rick Knoble
Yeah, I was on yahell lists before. I was not particularly impressed. This IS the place for information on ALL Mercedes, not just diesels (although a good deal of us are from an old diesel list). Here is some B2 info http://transmission.articles.mbz.org/b2/why/